This week Klaus Mäkelä returns to the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra conducting Shostakovich’s Symphony No.7 (Leningrad) at the Alte Oper Frankfurt on 30, 31 October and 1 November (live-streamed on hr-sinfonieorchester.de and ARTE Concert), and on 2 November at Stadthalle Aschaffenburg. The programme also includes Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor with Martin Helmchen.
Mäkelä then travels to Oslo to join the Oslo Philharmonic where he is Principal Conductor designate. He conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No.5 on 6 and 7 November. The programme on 7 November includes Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini with Kirill Gernstein, La melancolie by Ole Bull/Johan Halvorsen and Arne Nordheim’s Epitaffio.
